This is the modified Poorman's TeX by Stephen G. Simpson (simpson@math.psu.eud) for both simplified Chinese characters (GB coding) and traditional Chinese characters (BIG-5 coding). The input files pmCs.tex and pmCb.tex are improved (and renamed to pmCs-m.tex and pmCb-m.tex to avoid conflict with the original ones) that now it is possible to change font type and size within a document. To use the macros, put either \input pmCs-m % for GB files or \input pmCb-m % for BIG-5 files somewhere at the beginning of a document. The new command to change font or size is: \cfont{font name}{point size} For example, if you want to use font jfs10 at 14.4pt (\magstep2), put (available point sizes are 10pt, 12pt, and 14.4pt for jfs10): \cfont{jfs10}{14.4pt} You have to load a Chinese font first before any Chinese character appears. The jfs10 font included is created from bitmap font jfs56.hbf obtained from ifcss.org using Stephen's HBFtoPK program. The available sizes are 300pk, 360pk, and 432pk, corresponding to \magstep0, \magstep1, and \magstep2, respectively. They are in quite good quality. The old command \bigCtrue is still available when you are using wccs font which comes from the original Poorman's TeX. If you are using jfs10 font, bad luck. You can use \cfont command instead. To install, put inputs/*.tex in the TeX/LaTeX input directory, tfm/*.tfm in the system tfm directory, and pk/*.*pk in the system pk directory, or put above files in places where TeX/LaTeX can find input files, tfm files, and pk files. Please read the sample files in the samples directory for examples using the new command \cfont{}{} (There must be two arguments). PostScript files from the LaTeX source files are also provided. You can preview or print them before deciding to install the new macros and new fonts. BUGS If you use more than two Chinese fonts or sizes, TeX will complain it can't load any more font because not enough room is left (it is ok to use these two loaded fonts or sizes in different places within a document). One way to work around is to recompile TeX program and give it more memory for loading fonts. I would like to know any other ways to work around this problem. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Guangxi Wu, wuxi@unixg.ubc.ca Dept. of Bio-Resource Eng. Univ. of British Columbia Vancouver, B. C. Canada V6T 1Z4